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Re: RAT The fireside
Thanks Sean,
But you're forgetting how pearls are grown. They have to
start from an irritant. Something gets under the skin of the oyster and
digs at it's insides. To deal with that ache, the oyster, ( an ugly, yet
tasty creature) covers the irritant with layer after layer of what becomes
a pearl.
I forget who wrote it on the list, but, the passion is what's
needed. It would be nice if passion came so clearly out of agreement, but
most of the art I admire came out of a need to respond to injustice,
whether it is personal or public. Rage. I look back envious on the days
when audience would arm themselves to go to an Eric Satie concert, because
it would probably turn into a riot. Commitment. Anyone can commit when
it's "nice", when we're being "cordial." The audience is usually happy,
but undisturbed. Maria Irene Fornes, interviewed in "In Their Own Words"
talks about being a painter in Paris and seeing the original production of
"Waiting for Godot" and being "upset". It changed her life. "Upsetting"
people, in that manner, there's a goal, and if it takes punctuation fights
to uncover the passion that drives us, then I'm all for it. The list was
quiet for weeks. Now there's something to read and some of it is
energizing. Conflict. We've been using that for years. Let's NOT "make
nice."
Leon
>Let us not bicker and contest to see who holds the most wit. We can't
>change the world if we bicker as egotists and fools. With all the crap and
>nonsense no wonder why theater is a "dying" art. As actors, writers,
>directors and what not....we are thesbians...at a more intrinsic level we
>are storytellers. Way back in the day our place was around a fireside
>telling and acting or dancing out vibrant stories, which not only portrayed
>life in certain dynamics or demensions, but taught something as well. We
>entertained the kids, we made the adults laugh and we brought smiles of
>remebrance to the elders...but in the end we took something out of our
>little bags. A pearl of wisdom which was not social or political, but
>universal and human. Not only did the audience take that pearl with them,
>but we did too. The shine and the sheen which that pearl carried was
>awesome. The pearl was passed from soul to soul and with that the story
>was too. I don't know if I'm even getting my point across...or maybe this
>is a simple lofty notion of a naive young artist, but there is something as
>a theatre communtiy or more appropriatly a theatre nation that we need to
>find and remember. Somehow...and I have not figured this out, but somehow
>we have to come back to the fire and find that pearl.
>
>
>Thanks and Love,
>Sean Harvey
>
>PS--The "Truth" is out there!
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>At 02:37 PM 10/04/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>>Pat:
>>
>>Brilliant as always! Thanks.
>>
>>
>>Vandi
>>
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